Paris Exposition includes a large number of media innovations. Lumière demonstrates a large-screen cinema format using 50mm film and Raoul Grimoin-Sanson demonstrates his Cineorama cinema-in-the-round system using 10 70mm projectors. The Telegraphonethe first steel wire magnetic recorder, by the Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsenand the latest version of Gaumont's Chrono projector are among the Grand Prix winners.

Telegraphone: see also 1903
Recent research suggests Cineorama never opened [0068]

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Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre performances are held in the rue de Paris as part of the Paris Exposition. The sound film system, developed by Clément-Maurice and Henri Lioret, roughly synchronises film with cylinder recordings (Lioretographe). Among French theatrical stars filmed are Sarah Bernhardt and Coquelin in the duel scene from Cyrano de Bergerac. The films are subsequently taken on a European tour, organised by Félix Mesguich.

The 1952 film Cinéma parlant includes some of the films

August 25

A paper by Constantin Perskyi at the International Electricity Congress in Paris describes an apparatus employing the magnetic properties of selenium and referred to as 'television'. This is probably the first use of the word.

August 31

Coca-Cola goes on sale in the UK.

September 13

First Australian dramatic film, Soldiers of the Cross, made by Herbert Booth of the Salvation Army, is premièred.

November 17

James Williamson's film Attack on a Chinese Mission, almost certainly the first film ever to consist of more than two shots to show reverse angles, is shown in Hove, England.

November 30

Nederlandse Bioscope Maatschappij puts on the first Indonesian film show in Batavia.

Close-ups first intercut with other shots in Grandma's Reading Glass, made at Hove, England by G A Smith. Cecil Hepworth uses slow motion The Eccentric Dancer, a close-up of his own head in The Egg-laying Man and reverse motion in The Bathers, the second half of the film reversing the first half.

Grandma's Reading Glass can be viewed by educational users and researchers at screenonline

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Warwick Trading Company builds a film studio for G A Smith at St Anne's Well Gardens, Furze Hill, Hove at the start of a two-year contract. It replaces the temporary arrangements in the Pump House at the Gardens, which Smith has used since 1897. In the three years since starting production in 1897, G A Smith has made £2,000 profit from the medium.

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Warwick Journal is started as a regular newsreel by Charles Urban for Warwick Trading Co, London.

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Pathé opens an office in London.

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Chrono de Poche portable camera using 15mm wide film stock and a single central perforation is introduced in France by Gaumont.

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Auguste Baron is granted a US patent for his sound film synchronisation system.